Peggy McIntosh Quotes: - I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in. I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of race. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by. I can go home from most meetings of organizations I belong to feeling somewhat tied in, rather than isolated, out-of-place, outnumbered unheard, held at a distance, or feared. I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk to “the person in charge”, I will be facing a person of my race.
I do not have to be concerned about others accusing me of “playing the race card” if I object to an injustice. I can choose public accommodations, restaurants, or coffee shops without fearing that people of my race cannot get in or will be mistreated in the places I have chosen.
If a traffic cop pulls me over, I can be sure I haven’t been singled out because of my race. In the late 1960s, civil rights activists, social workers, and educators began using a variety of techniques (encounter groups, classroom curricula, t groups, small group discussions, and sensitivity training) designed to break through whites’ wall of denial. In the words of McIntosh, White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks. I am never asked to speak for all the people of my racial group. Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack For the purposes of this article we are looking at the academic work entitled The Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh. I can do well in a challenging situation without being called a credit to my race. I can swear or dress in second hand clothes, or not answer letters, without having people attribute these choices to the bad morals, the poverty, illiteracy or poor education of my race. I can arrange to protect my children most of the time from people who might not like them. When I or my children are told about our national heritage or about “civilization”, I am shown that people of my color made it what it is. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live. I can, if I wish, arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time. Peggy McIntoshĪs white people, we are able to live our lives without confronting the advantages and privileges that come to us just by virtue of the color of our skin…privileges we have regardless of education, socioeconomic status or even gender. I think whites are carefully taught not to recognise white privilege, as males are taught. Adaptation of “Unpacking the Invisible Backpack” by Dr. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack Peggy McIntosh.
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